Battleground Essences - Heart of Azeroth Essence Spotlight

Our next Essence spotlight is highlighting the three Battleground Essences - Sphere of Suppression, Artifice of Time and Blood of the Enemy. Players will have to participate in Battlegrounds or PvP Island Expeditions to obtain the Essences for each of these roles by accumulate a large amount of Honor in these activities.

Drop Locations

The Drop Locations for the Sphere of Suppression, Artifice of Time and Blood of the Enemy Essences are from Battlegrounds or PvP Island Expeditions. These quests should be available when Patch 8.2 launches and the first quest is to win a PvP Island Expedition, a Battleground and an Epic Battleground. Future ranks require cumulative 15k Honor, then 50k Honor and then 100k Honor for the final rank.

Artifice of Time

Rank 1: Create a time vortex around a friendly target, absorbing 496,932 damage and 496,932 healing for 4 sec. When this expires, the absorbed damage and healing is delivered over 10 sec.

Rank 2: Create a time vortex around a friendly target, absorbing 496,932 damage and 496,932 healing for 6 sec. When this expires, the absorbed damage and healing is delivered over 10 sec.

Rank 3: Create a time vortex around a friendly target, absorbing 496,932 damage and 496,932 healing for 6 sec. When this expires, the absorbed damage and healing is delivered over 10 sec, and the damage is reduced by 20%.

Minor Power

Rank 1: Your heals have a very high chance to grant the target 304 Haste for 6 sec.

Rank 2: Your heals have a very high chance to grant the target 304 Haste for 8 sec.

Rank 3: Your heals have a very high chance to grant the target 304 Haste and 39 Speed for 8sec.

Commenti

Commento di dingledots

You might want to update the essence effects. For blood of the enemy at least, it isn't updated to the recent nerfs to the essence from the last ptr build (release candidate).

Commento di serra2

on 2019-06-17T09:17:44-05:00

So, I don't see it mentioned, but is the honor for the achievements cumulative to date? Or do I have to grind it out starting in 8.2? If I log in will the Achievements just pop?

Commento di Dawnrider

on 2019-06-17T09:26:37-05:00

accumulate a large amount of Honor

So depending on where you pvp means these will be damn near impossible to get. I sit through a 20 minute queue, just to do a 20 minute battleground with an 80% chance to lose and get 0 honor. Not lying, it's happened several times.

Commento di Drakenking

on 2019-06-17T10:26:20-05:00

accumulate a large amount of Honor

So depending on where you pvp means these will be damn near impossible to get. I sit through a 20 minute queue, just to do a 20 minute battleground with an 80% chance to lose and get 0 honor. Not lying, it's happened several times.

What are you talking about, you get honor from HK's as well as losing a BG, you just don't get Bonus honor for winning.

Commento di sbensen

on 2019-06-17T10:54:39-05:00

accumulate a large amount of Honor

So depending on where you pvp means these will be damn near impossible to get. I sit through a 20 minute queue, just to do a 20 minute battleground with an 80% chance to lose and get 0 honor. Not lying, it's happened several times.

They need to increase the honor you get from world pvp. 1v1 should get you a lot more honor. Getting 1 honor in 40v40 kinda blows. The game should be able to detect if the sides are fair and adjust accordingly. Eg a 1v1 rewards 100 honor. If someone steps in, it rewards only 5.

Commento di Katteno

on 2019-06-17T11:00:25-05:00

So in a general battleground, You get about what, 1k honor on a win? So 50 wins or around 100-130 losses.

This is gonna take awhile, but is grindable. It's interesting how powerful the level 3 ranks are on all the essences, we're gonna see some massive power spikes as those who have no life move from rank 2->rank 3 and become gods.

Commento di EazyMcGee

on 2019-06-17T11:39:09-05:00

accumulate a large amount of Honor

So depending on where you pvp means these will be damn near impossible to get. I sit through a 20 minute queue, just to do a 20 minute battleground with an 80% chance to lose and get 0 honor. Not lying, it's happened several times.

What Realm are you in to have such a long queue.

Commento di Baratheus

on 2019-06-17T11:49:57-05:00

you should highlight that u only get 1 of the 3 from the questsame as for other essences that are not shared through specslike doing a +4 in heal for heal essence; a +4 as dd for damage essence and a +4 as tank for the tank essence

Commento di AlakeiThancan

on 2019-06-17T12:20:33-05:00

accumulate a large amount of Honor

So depending on where you pvp means these will be damn near impossible to get. I sit through a 20 minute queue, just to do a 20 minute battleground with an 80% chance to lose and get 0 honor. Not lying, it's happened several times.

What Realm are you in to have such a long queue.

I changed realms recently precisely for this reason. I used to be on two of the largest french realms, and yet the zones are empty and you've got 15 minutes queues for pvp and pve alike. And that's at peak hours, it's almost impossible to trigger a battleground during the night or the morning.

I have two questions related to the essences. Do you need to grind X amount of Honor ONCE you have the quest, or do you just need to have earned that amount since the start of BFA? And not completely unrelated, is it based on your honor level? i.e account wide?

Commento di IronicUserName

on 2019-06-24T10:39:46-05:00

First win of the day with bonuses usually nets 700-1000 honor depending on how much actual combat went on in the BG. You can also get honor from supply crates, strongboxes and events like Tol Barad.

"Give us goals to work towards" "Classic was great because you had to work for what you got""Why are these goals so hard?" "I dont want to have to work for the rewards"